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Survival Horror Newbie

So I want to try a survival horror game, but I have not really played any in the past. I have a 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS and PC. Any recommendations? I think I am looking for something with a great story if that exists.

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So I want to try a survival horror game, but I have not really played any in the past. I have a 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS and PC. Any recommendations? I think I am looking for something with a great story if that exists.

If you want to edge yourself into Survival Horror, google Survival Crisis Zero. It's a PC open-world zombie apocalypse game that was made free a few years ago. It's like a combination of Resident Evil (In Racoon City.) and GTA.

It can be really tense on the harder difficulties until you get well equipped and learn how to cover angles with the proper weapons, since the hordes will come at you at all sides on the streets, when you take cover in buildings, when you hide in the sewers, and, well, everywhere. The evil little fuckers even leap through windows in buildings to get at you if you try to hide in them. Though, once you get well equipped and get a few buddies the game gets much less tense and turns into a zombie massacre if you play it the right (Or wrong, depending on your views.) way.

Also, it has some zelda-esque elements, where there are randomly appearing dungeons you can go through, too. Though they can be grueling unless you're prepared for them, since they throw some insane odds at you, and later on

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the game starts to go all Silent Hill on you, and might send you to a hellish version of the dungeon just to fuck with you. Also, i'm pretty sure there's a Silent Hill-esque version of the city you can explore, but I never got that far in it.

I couldn't play SH2 with the lights off. I tried. I REALLY tried. But screaming like a girl at 3am in the dark while your roommates try to sleep is, well, it's not something they're likely to be OKAY with. Unless of course they grab some popcorn and come watch the horror unfold with you. SH2 is THAT good/scary. Your friends will WATCH you play and enjoy it, and vise-versa.

I still haven't been able to find myself a copy of Silent Hill 2, but it's definitely regarded, in general, as the best survival horror game of all time.

On the current gen, Siren: Blood Curse (PS3) is really, really good. It takes the already-stressful horror genre and mixes in the tense, thoughtful gameplay of a stealth title = Going by Metacritic it's the best-reviewed survival horror of this gen (between it, Silent Hill Homecoming and ... ugh, Alone in the Dark). It's one of my top games of '08, and it's $40 on PSN, totally downloadable. 9ish GB.

On PS2 I can suggest Fatal Frame II. If any part of you believes in like, the spirit world or life after death or whatever. That game fucking terrifies me. But, if you don't buy the idea of a peice of you existing beyond death, it may not affect you.

So, Blood Curse is essentially an old-school adventure game that tells a disturbing, really-damn-smart horror story, and Fatal Frame will prove your masculinity.

I would actually recommend that he pick up Silent Hill 2 on XBOX. I saw it recently for pretty cheap used at an EBstop in the area. If you can find a copy of it, it looks way prettier than the PS2 version, and it contains extra content that isn't on every PS2 release.

Also, the REmake is mandatory if you want to see the reason that survival horror made it in to the mainstream but not put up with PSX graphics, which don't bother me personally, but I know some folks are put off by them.

Just watching my brother play RE1 on PS1 scared the shit out of me when I was little.

Looking past all the terrible voice acting and everything, just the whole atmosphere about being stuck inside one big freaky mansion instead of a town/city... it's just so much scarier.

Yeah, there is something effing horrifying about being trapped in a house of death with no way to get out and absolutely no idea what is around the next bend. Like: "Oh, well, here I am! I'm in a house! I'm STUCK here! I'm BY MYSELF! Oh, and THAT's a fucking ZOMBIE! Good thing I have all this... WAIT I have like TWO BULLETS!"

So I want to try a survival horror game, but I have not really played any in the past. I have a 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS and PC. Any recommendations? I think I am looking for something with a great story if that exists.

The weird thing is that they utterly destroy much more horrific things in the course of wandering the house. You'd think that after the very first time they ran across a boss they'd hightail it back to the dogs.

Depending on how you define Survival Horror, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl with the Oblivion Lost mod is a pretty dang good choice. Once you get into some of the later areas shit can get real terrifying:, and OL's unpredictable nature means there's a crapload of possabilities for what the game might throw at you.

So I want to try a survival horror game, but I have not really played any in the past. I have a 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS and PC. Any recommendations? I think I am looking for something with a great story if that exists.

Depending on how you define Survival Horror, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl with the Oblivion Lost mod is a pretty dang good choice. Once you get into some of the later areas shit can get real terrifying:, and OL's unpredictable nature means there's a crapload of possabilities for what the game might throw at you. Like crashing to desktop.

Well yes, Dead Space is closer to survival horror than either RE4/5 because it is actually scary. You are some sort of demigod of destruction in that game though. With pimped out electrician/war god battle armor.

The weird thing is that they utterly destroy much more horrific things in the course of wandering the house. You'd think that after the very first time they ran across a boss they'd hightail it back to the dogs.

I think it's the idea that there were dozens and dozens of dogs running around out there. Two or three dogs? No problem. One Hunter? No problem. One or two Chimera? No problem.